Are you carrying the weight of sending well? Maybe you’ve got a potential planter you believe in—but you’re also asking the right questions:
Are they called to plant? Are they healthy? Are they ready? And what support will they need if we send them?
Passion for Planting’s church planter assessment process will help you both clarify his calling to church planting. Your candidate can come interact with a team of assessors who will prayerfully discern with him what the Spirit is calling him into.
Our assessment event can be a stake in the ground, a line in the sand for your candidate. In the coming months and years, your candidate will be able to look back with confidence. When the hard days come and he’s tempted to question his calling, he can rest in what he heard from the assessment team.
Here are your 3 simple steps:
- Register your candidate for the next Assessment event
- Send him and his wife ready to interact with a team of assessors who will prayerfully discern with them what the Spirit is calling them into
- As he plants, he looks back with confidence, and rests in what he heard from the assessment team
The Process
Passion for Planting’s Assessment Center combines a pre-screening process along with a formal 2½ day on-site assessment to evaluate your candidate’s calling, health, gifts, passions, strengths and weaknesses. Following assessment, your candidate will not only have confidence in his calling, but he’ll also have clear next steps for pursuing the vision God has given him.
The assessment process includes:
Pre-Assessment
• Personality profile inventories
• Ministry questionnaire
Assessment (2.5 days)
• Discovery Sessions (interviews) with the Assessment Team, including a clinical psychologist
• Exercises with other candidate couples
• Summary interview (debrief) with the Assessment Team
Post-Assessment
• Your candidate and you as his sponsor receive a formal Assessment Report
The People
Our Assessment Team includes experienced church planters, seasoned pastors, a clinical psychologist, and you as the sponsor from his sending church or network. We help your candidate and his wife look through multiple lenses to give him a comprehensive view of his readiness to plant a church.
Our Pledge
When your candidate participates in Passion for Planting’s Assessment event:
- he will be covered in prayer
- he won’t be attacked to test how he reacts
- he will hear the truth in love
- he will come away with an action plan
The Details
| Assessment Dates: | Next one: May 4-6, 2026 application and full payment due Monday, April 6, 2026 (1 month ahead of event) Future dates:
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| Assessment Times: | Starts Monday @ 8:00am; ends Wednesday @ 12:00pm |
| Location: | New Life Christian Church at the nZone, 14550 Lee Rd, Chantilly, VA |
| Cost: | Registration: Because of strategic partnerships and generous donors, we’re able to offer a sliding scale for Assessment fees: • $3,500 Standard Rate • $2,700 Partner Rate • $1,600 Renew Movement Affiliate Rate Particulars: • a minimum $300 deposit will save you a seat, which are limited • Earlybird Rate: save $100 by registering by Friday, Mar 13 • registration covers planter & spouse • balance is due 1 month prior to the event • travel and lodging costs are not included |
| Logistics: | • Recommended Airport: Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) • Recommended Hotel: Holiday Inn Chantilly-Dulles Expo |
| Registration & Payment: | Register Now |